WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run open source project or Automattic’s WordPress.com , vanilla or customized with hundreds of plugins, WordPress users always get to own and control their data, their expression, and their freedom. We’re always looking for talented and experienced engineers worldwide, excited to help Automattic’s product ecosystem, and join our mission to make the web a better place.  What have we worked on recently? AI is at the heart of many new product developments and powers a lot of our day-to-day development workflows. WooCommerce is the most popular and most flexible e-commerce platform on the web. We're working tirelessly on giving you all the control, while keeping...

Forward Deployed Engineer (WordPress VIP Customer Engineering & Architecture) At WordPress VIP (part of Automattic ), we power the most influential properties on the web, from the White House to Meta and Salesforce. We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our mission in redefining how the world’s largest enterprises scale. This isn't your typical engineering role; it’s an advanced, consultative position where you operate as a hands-on architect and a growth catalyst. As an FDE, you are the front line of trust, embedded with our most strategic customers to solve high-stakes technical challenges in real-time. By combining engineering excellence with deep customer proximity, you won’t just solve problems for customers, you’ll solve them with them, driving business expansion across the world’s most scaled environments. If you thrive in high-impact, ambiguous environments and want to help define the future of open-source technology at the...

Automattic ’s products— WordPress.com , WooCommerce , Beeper , Tumblr , Jetpack , and more—serve tens of billions of page views every month from data centers around the world. The PerfOps team exists to make those page views as quickly as possible. As a Backend Performance Engineer, you’ll dive deep into query plans, cache hit ratios, and PHP profiling data to find the milliseconds that matter at our scale. You’ll work across the full Automattic product portfolio: if it runs on our backend, it’s your playground. This is an opportunity to do performance work where the impact is immediate and enormous. You’ll collaborate with product engineers, systems engineers, and network operations, bringing a performance-first mindset to architecture decisions, code reviews, and incident response. If you love the puzzle of why something is slow and get satisfaction from making it measurably faster, this role was made for you. Responsibilities:   Identifying and eliminating backend...

Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com , Jetpack , Tumblr , and WooCommerce , is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. On our Systems team, you’ll deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month—from 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents. Help us develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world. As part of a small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, you’ll have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure, including: Maximizing the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation and rapid response to failures; Making Automattic services as fast as possible for our users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with 3rd party...